alogin Skills — VS Code & Cursor Extension

A VS Code interface for alogin — run remote server commands, build custom skills, and let Cursor Agent operate on your infrastructure via alogin MCP.

alogin Skills connects VS Code and Cursor to your alogin server registry. It ships with a handful of example skills (health check, log triage, security scan, etc.) and a builder for creating your own. The real power is exposing alogin's full MCP tool set to Cursor Agent so you can operate on real servers directly from the chat window.

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What problem does this solve?

Every developer who touches production infrastructure knows these moments:

• Checking server health right after a deploy — so you open a terminal, SSH in, and scan logs manually
• Getting a spike alert and hunting through logs on multiple servers one by one
• A disk warning hits and you spend 10 minutes finding which directory is the culprit
• Security audit time — manually checking sudoers, open ports, auth logs on each host

alogin Skills turns those repetitive tasks into reusable one-click skills that run directly from VS Code. Connect it to a Cursor Agent and you can just say "check logs on web-01 for the last 100 lines" — no terminal context switching needed.

Features

Built-in Skills

Six example skills are included to get you started. They run standard shell commands over SSH — no magic, just a starting point you can edit or replace:

Select a server in the sidebar, click a skill, and results appear in a VS Code panel.

Custom Skill Builder

Every team has its own checklist. Build skills that match your workflow:

• exec_command — run a sequence of shell commands in order
• run_script — upload and execute a bash script on the remote host
• Set intent, timeout, icon, and whether the skill requires human approval before running
• Duplicate, edit, or delete skills at any time
• Run on a single server or across an entire cluster in parallel

Example: wrap "pre-deploy DB migration check → nginx reload → health check" into one skill and trigger it every deploy — no more copy-pasting commands from a runbook.

Cursor Agent Integration

Inside Cursor, prefix your request with @alogin and the agent handles the rest:

@alogin run a health check on server web-01
@alogin check logs on db-prod for the last 100 lines
@alogin inspect server 3
@alogin run security scan on all web servers

The agent connects to your real servers through alogin, analyzes the output, and explains what it found — all inside the chat window.

Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) Approval

When an AI agent tries to run a potentially dangerous command (rm, systemctl stop, DROP TABLE, etc.), execution pauses and a VS Code panel opens with a countdown timer (default: 120 s).

You Approve or Deny directly from the panel. The extension calls alogin agent approve/deny <token> automatically. This prevents the agent from accidentally doing something destructive on a production server.

Server Panel

Quick access to your registered servers from the Activity Bar:

• SSH Connect — opens an integrated terminal session
• Cluster Connect — opens all cluster nodes in tiled panes
• TUI — fuzzy-search server picker in the terminal
• Web UI — starts alogin web and opens the browser dashboard
• Switch Profile — QuickPick to swap network profiles (home / office / VPN)

Getting Started

Step 1 — Install alogin

macOS (Homebrew)

brew tap emusal/tap
brew install alogin

Linux

curl -sSL https://github.com/emusal/alogin2/releases/latest/download/install.sh | bash

Verify:

alogin --version

Step 2 — Register a server

alogin server add web-01 --host 1.2.3.4 --user ubuntu

Use SSH key auth, or let alogin store a password securely in the system vault.

Step 3 — Wire up your AI client (optional)

Register alogin as an MCP server in Cursor, Claude Desktop, or VS Code:

alogin agent setup        # auto-detects installed clients, prompts you to choose
alogin agent setup all    # register in all detected clients at once

After this, Cursor can call all alogin tools natively via @alogin.

Claude Desktop: restart the app after running setup.

Manage skills separately:

alogin agent skills install        # checkbox selector
alogin agent skills install all    # install everything
alogin agent skills list           # show installed skills

Configuration

Settings → Extensions → alogin Skills

Command Palette

Ctrl+Shift+P / ⌘⇧P → type alogin:

New to alogin?

alogin is an infrastructure access tool that combines SSH server management, AI agent integration, cluster execution, and audit logging in one binary.

• Fuzzy-search hundreds of servers and connect in 3 keystrokes
• Automatic bastion/gateway hop chains — no ProxyJump config needed
• AI agents operate on server IDs only — credentials and IPs never leave your machine
• Every agent-executed command is appended to an audit log automatically

Learn more: github.com/emusal/alogin2

License

Apache-2.0 — see LICENSE